Fatboy Muscleman

Paul Newman died today. In memory of a great actor and a great man, I want to post some quotes from one of my favorite Newman movies, Cool Hand Luke.

• He was smiling… That’s right. You know, that, that Luke smile of his. He had it on his face right to the very end. Hell, if they didn’t know it ‘fore, they could tell right then that they weren’t a-gonna beat him. That old Luke smile. Oh, Luke. He was some boy. Cool Hand Luke. Hell, he’s a natural-born world-shaker.
• Luke: I can eat fifty eggs.
  Dragline: Nobody can eat fifty eggs.
  Society Red: You just said he could eat anything.
  Dragline: Did you ever eat fifty eggs?
  Luke: Nobody ever eat fifty eggs.
  Prisoner: Hey, Babalugats. We got a bet here.
  Dragline: My boy says he can eat fifty eggs, he can eat fifty eggs.
  Loudmouth Steve: Yeah, but in how long?
  Luke: A hour.
  Society Red: Well, I believe I’ll take part of that wager.
• Luke: Let him go. Bam, Bam.
  Dragline: Knock it off, Luke. You can’t talk about Him that way.
  Luke: Are you still believin’ in that big bearded Boss up there? You think he’s watchin’ us?
  Dragline: Get in here. Ain’t ya scared? Ain’t ya scared of dyin’?
  Luke: Dyin’? Boy, he can have this little life any time he wants to. Do ya hear that? Are ya hearin’ it? Come on. You’re welcome to it, ol’ timer. Let me know you’re up there. Come on. Love me, hate me, kill me, anything. Just let me know it.
  [He looks around]
  Luke: I’m just standin’ in the rain talkin’ to myself.
• Dragline: Nothin’. A handful of nothin’. You stupid mullet head. He beat you with nothin’. Just like today when he kept comin’ back at me – with nothin’.
  Luke: Yeah, well, sometimes nothin’ can be a real cool hand.
• Arletta: Why, we always thought you was strong enough to carry it. Was we wrong?
  Luke: I don’t know. Well, things are just never the way they seem, Arletta, you know that. A man’s just gotta go his own way.